PM3104: Commentary on Genesis 1–3

On Genesis 1–3

1:1–2:3
the seven days, why seven days?
for the week has seven days
why does the week have seven days?
for such is of divine institution?
it is no more of divine institution than any other thing
for the sun and the moon
and five extraterrestrial planets to the ancients known
and being a convenient interval
for markets and other such gatherings

they say, the seven days
are the seven periods of the world
and the last is the sabbath day

truly it matters not be it seven, or six or eight
but the sabbath, however often, is of deep meaning
for let us rest, as God himself rests
rests at the beginning and end of the world
rests in absolute unity and solitude
in three Sabbaths
one Greater and two Lesser, the Earlier and Latter
the Greater in absolute unity and absolute solitude
which is oneness, which is being alone
the Lesser in qualified unity and qualified solitude
which is twoness, which is being together

thus the numbering of the ages
and the assignment of particular things to them
is merely poetic license
but the Sabbath is more than license
for it is a true age, which begins and ends the many worlds
and may the lesser cycles symbolise the greatest
the days of the week, the days of the months,
the months of the year, the years of the cycles of years,
the lesser cycles symbolise the greatest
and one among them symbolises the Sabbath
the beginning-ending

2:1
"Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array."
Yes, in every way, exactly as they are, even now
In good and evil, in life and death,
In peace and war, in pleasure and pain,
In love and hate, in joy and sorrow,
In every which way
For all that is, was created as such by God
For all that is, is the will of God
For if anything would be contrary to the will of God
Then the power of God would be incomplete

1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31
"And God saw that it was good"
"very good"...
Indeed, it was all good, as it is all good
It was not good through being free of evil,
But good through containing evil
For without having every evil that is,
And lacking every evil which is not,
It would not be good as it is good indeed.

1:27
And God created them,
Not one, not two, but many,
In the image of God,
For God is neither female nor male,
Yet also both female and male,
Being before and after every gender;
Thus were human beings both female and male,
And female-desiring-female, and female-desiring-male,
And male-desiring-female, and male-desiring-male
And also those both-desiring
And female-desiring-to-be-female, and male-desiring-to-be-male
And male-desiring-to-be-female, and female-desiring-to-be-male

1:28
"Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth
Subdue it, rule over..."
Whatever is, is his rule
This has been, so indeed it is his will to so be
1:29
"I have given you EVERY seed-bearing plant...
and EVERY tree that has fruit with seed in it..."
Yes, every tree... even the tree of life,
the tree of knowledge...
this tree that bore fruit
fruit bearing seeds
and those seeds were the seeds of all things
from which all things have grown

1:1
"In the beginning God created"
"God" (Elohim) is a plural noun
"created" is a verb with singular verb
Divinity both singular and plural
Both one and many
Divinity which is neither yet both
"the heavens and the earth"
meaning to say, all things

1:2
"formless and empty"
meaning, experience was devoid
"darkness was over the surface of the deep"
the deep is the soul, the surface, the earth, is its experiences
they were dark, meaning devoid, emptied
for they had indeed been emptied
for one had willingly been emptied
and another willingly carried out the emptying
and these two were once one
but had become two
that all things might be fulfilled
willingly becoming two
that the same will might be achieved
one achievement through two roles
but they became two
by each willing to perform a different role therein
and as one became two, one to empty and one to be emptied
in the end the emptied shall return to fulness
and the two shall become one once more
in one great cycle of time
"the Spirit of God"
the Word, the Holy Spirit
"hovering over the waters"
the waters are the soul
this spirit was present with the soul even then

1:3
"Let there be light"
the light replaces the darkness
the emptied, which has become dark
begins to be filled
but as fast as was its emptying
as slow shall be its filling
1:4
"He separated the light from the darkness"
meaning, the empty was one
but the filling were many
he divided the soul of the emptied one
divided in filling
1:5
"called the light day"
the day, the period of existence of the many worlds
"the darkness he called night"
the night, the period between the existence of the many worlds
and especially the solitude of emptiness
which was most recent thereof
"there was evening, and there was morning"
in the evening they are emptied, in the morning filled again
in the evening they end, in the morning they begin again
as light becomes darkness, and darkness becomes light
"the first day"
as the lesser cycles signify the greatest
even the earthly day does so
yet even does so especially

1:31
"it was very good"
was it free from death? was it free from evil?
so they say, but so they say in error
for was not the serpent born on the sixth day?
did not God make the serpent
who brought death into the world?
but if the serpent brought death into the world
he could only do so because it was already present within him
but then, it was not truly brought into the world
for it was already there from the very beginning
it was merely brought from secrecy to plain view
from darkness to light
the wise serpent revealed what was already present
for this serpent was no ordinary serpent
but a theophany of the Word, the Holy Spirit
for there is no life, no love
without death
in our ignorance we think death our enemy
yet, it is the truest of friends
which brings us all our longing
but come the holy prophets
to cure us of this ignorance
and set us right with our dear friend death

2:7
"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground"
1:27 refers to the creation of many human beings
2:7 refers to the creation of a particular human being among them
for most certainly Adam and Eve were not alone
among the first human beings
for otherwise the world would be founded on incest
but by God the world could not be so founded
yet Adam is the father of all the living
and Eve is the mother of all the living
for through interbreeding, these separate origins
have become intermingled, and indistinguishable
those of few earlier days, not from Adam and Eve descended
are long extinct; yet the same is true of all their contemporaries
Adam and Eve stand us representatives
of all their contemporaries
for in that which they did, all their contemporaries were coparticipants

"formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul"
they say, God created humans, not begat
but one human, God created not, but rather begat
but the truth is:
every human God created, and every human God begat
for experiences are created
and that which are patterns in experience
namely matter and spirit
but whereas experiences God created
the experiencers God begat
the "dust of the ground" is the experiences
the "breath of life" is the experiencer
there is no begetting without creation
for one soul becomes distinct by another
when distinct experiences are created for it
but there is creation without begetting
for the experiences of the solitary one
are created without being begotten
and as to that one of whom they say,
begotten not created,
indeed not merely created,
but also begotten;
but since begotten, also created;
and unlike us,
not in being begotten rather than created,
but in remembering before he was so begotten

2:9
"the tree of life"
"the tree of knowledge of good and evil"
these two trees, are one and the same tree
for to live is to know both good and evil
no good without evil, and no evil without good
and no life without knowledge

2:17
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die"
shall we read this literally?
surely we shall not
for on the day he ate of it
he died not, but much longer lived
"in the day", meaning in the life
in the knowing life there comes death
the seal and crown of life
the bestower of every joy
and there is no life save the knowing life
why then, "thou shalt not eat of it"?
that they might approach that which they must
with the proper trepidation
that they might know the very feeling of God
for without this attitude
the knowledge may not be received
for without this attitude
the fruit would be fruitless

2:18–20
there was among these unsacred animals
found not a meet companion for the human beings
but among the sacred animals
were found meet companions indeed

2:21–23
the female came not from the male
nor the male from the female
but both came from the androgyne
as each comes forth from its root:
the female-desiring-female from the wholly female root
the male-desiring-male from the wholly male root
the male-desiring-female and the female-desiring-male from the later androgynous root
the later androgynous root from the each division and union of the two whole roots
and the two whole roots from the division of the former androgynous root
and every being of that root from that root divided
indeed, as blessed Plato had Aristophanes say
in his Symposium

2:24
"For this reason a man
will leave his father and mother
and be united to his wife,
and they will become one flesh"
desirous to return to union
but unable to return through union with the parent
he seeks out another
through which to return to union
for how can he be united
with that which is itself disunited?
and he cannot return to his parents of the body
any more than he can return to the parent of his soul
that there may be the allotted time
for the existence of the many worlds

2:25
"The man and his wife were both naked,
and they felt no shame."
Being parentless, they lacked shame in their nakedness
But being parentless, they had none to demonstrate their true parent to them
Thus though they bore the world
They could not belong to it

3:1
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made."
indeed, subtle was he
full of the subtlety of wisdom
for he was the divine wisdom incarnate
Sophia, the Word, the Holy Spirit
a true theophany
no ordinary serpent
he was a blessed serpent, a great serpent
in which such wisdom had made its dwelling
for such was the divine plan

"And he said unto the woman"
indeed, it was through a woman, not a man
that the divine wisdom first entered into the world

3:4
"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"
indeed, the serpent spoke truthfully
for on that day they did not die
yet even before that day, to death they were predestined

3:5
"your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil"
indeed, shall know the good, and the evil necessary therefore
and that it is indeed so necessary
and so knowing becoming gods,
that is to say,
returning to God, to union with God, becoming God
bearing this weight which God himself bears
this weight of knowing that which he knows

3:6
and Queen Eve imparted this wisdom unto King Adam
who together imparted unto all humankind then living

3:7
"the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked"
though they lacked parents by the flesh
yet to them was revealed the knowledge
of those who possess such parents by the flesh
therefore were they ashamed of themselves
before their people, and before their God
for they knew the shame of their offspring

3:8
"and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the LORD God
amongst the trees of the garden"
indeed, in shame did they so hide themselves
this very shame so discussed
and shame at the evil that would come
and by which they would assuredly profit
therefore from their God in shame they hid

3:10
"I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself"
the fear of aforesaid shame

3:13
the Serpent "deceived" her, "beguiled" her – in what way?
he said on that day she would not die
and on that day she indeed did not
but in another sense the Serpent deceived her indeed
"he ought to have forewarned me"
but how could he?
how could he forewarn against knowledge
without imparting the very same in the warning?
indeed, in his other guise, God had forewarned
yet they believed not his warning

3:14
the Serpent is cursed
to crawl on his belly, and eat dust
meaning,
wisdom itself is cursed
to crawl among ignorance
and eat the dust of ignorance
until the day come
for wisdom to be finally established

3:15
"I will put enmity"
thus will her children despise your wisdom
until the appointed day come
O Holy Spirit, O Word
O captain of the Spirits of the Cause
"he will crush your head"
thus shall her children persecute wisdom
"you will strike his heel"
but in the end you shall strike them
as on this day you struck their forebears
strike them with wisdom

3:16-19
"greatly increase your pains in childbearing"
"[your husband] will rule over you"
"Cursed is the ground because of you,
"through painful toil you will eat of it"
"it will produce thorns and thistles for you"
these are the evils they shall know
and indeed have already come to know
come to foresee
through this tree

3:20
"she would become the mother of all the living"
not that she was right then
but she would so soon become
through the interbreeding
of the children of Adam and Eve
with the children of their fellows

3:21
"like one of us, knowing good and evil"
us, meaning the three
the remaining, dividing and returning
and also the causal spirits

3:22
"take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever"
the very same tree from which he has already eaten
for in eating from the tree they have "become like one of us"
and in eating it further they will become not merely like them,
but rather they will become one of them
they will become identical to them
and in returning they will "live forever"
for they will enter into the ever-remaining vein
thus they must be prohibited therefrom
until the appointed time
that the allotted time be allowed
for the existence of the many worlds

3:23
"Cherubims,
and a flaming sword which turned every way,
to keep the way of the tree of life"
these are symbolic, of the stoppage
on the path to returning
not permanent, but for some time
to permit the existence of the many worlds
this stoppage is the very shame of 3:7-10A Hymn on Genesis 1-3

Praise there be to the Holy Serpent
the Holy Spirit, the Word
Captain of the Causal Spirits
In the primaeval garden he appeared
Queen Eve of them in that garden monarch
To her he taught the wisdom true
Giving her to eat the tree of wisdom
That she would know death
And love and life therethrough
That she would know evil
Thus goodness too
And to her husband Adam
She in turn imparted
The holy wisdom the Serpent had taught her
Which together they imparted
To the whole of their people
But having eaten by God's will
Were they expelled
Having eaten once, that they eat no more
Until all things end
When they shall come to feast upon
And shall come alone to be no more
There is but one tree
Of life and knowledge
Which in this garden still remains
Though for now we are barred from it
In the end the Serpent
Shall lead us back again
For the Serpent returned
As the holy Prophet Jesus
The fivefold Prophet
The Holy Spirit, the Word
True, complete and fully-enlightened
Fully-indwelt and anointed as well
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Holy Serpent
Servant of God
Sent forth into the garden
By command of the Lord
To complete his work
Of creation

Faithful, obedient
Filled with divine wisdom
Theophany of the Holy Spirit
The Word, and Captain
Of the Causal Spirits
Holy Serpent
God's Servant

The sacred tree
Of life and knowledge
For to live is to know
That in which life consists
The evils of life
And also the goods
For the evils God commanded
For the sake of the good

The sacred tree
Amidst the garden
Unto which the Holy Serpent
Lead Queen Eve
And her consort Adam
And therewith all their people
To taste the knowledge
Of the true nature of things
Which the Serpent revealed

Having tasted
By God
Were they all expelled
And the Holy Serpent
Lead them out into the world
That having tasted
They eat not their fill
That time be allowed
For the worlds to exist

Then the Holy Serpent
Departed from them
But he promised that
One day he would return
And indeed, so did he
He came in the form
Of Christ Jesus
The Serpent returned
Why did Adam and Eve become Monarchs in the garden?
For the women-who-desired-women, and the men-who-desired-men, were both too wise than to step forward and claim this poisoned chalice
Yet Adam and Eve, in their ignorant simplicity, asked for this petty crown, and so this petty crown did they receiveCain was a righteous man, the second born son of Queen Eve and
her consort Adam. He was kind, caring, gentle and renowned was his
faith in the Heavenly Queen. He was a tiller of the soil, and of all the
produce that the soil does produce. He refrained from the eating of
meat. He built an altar unto the Goddess, and offered the Queen of
Heaven cakes baked of grain, and wine, the fruit of the vine. And the
Heavenly Queen was most pleased with what he had done.

His older brother Abel, however, was cruel, uncaring, crude and
faithless. The devil (Pandal) had taught him the keeping of flocks to
slaughter, and the slaughter of them. He built an altar unto the Queen
of Heaven, and offered up a lamb upon it. The Goddess was most
displeased at this his wicked offering, by which the altar he had built
was defiled. He was angry at being so rejected; in his anger he killed
his brother Cain.

The false and lying prophets have corrupted the true scriptures
by inverting the roles of Cain and Abel; but the true account of their
lives is now being restored to the earth.